Project size:  Medium

Audience: All users

Target users: Teachers, 

Goals

To improve the grading ux and increase the flexibility of the rubric functionality within Moodle

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User Stories 

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As a teacher, currently in Moodle a single score must be put into each cell in the rubric leaving no flexibility within a grade level. For example if you have three scores 3, 7, 10 within your rubric - what happens if a student deserves a 4 or a 5. Unless you create more “levels” within a rubric, which gets very unwieldy on the screen, it is impossible to give students a ark within a range

As a teacher I should have the option of levels to have a band e.g. a range of scores (Poor 0-3, average 4-6, excellent 7 - 10). See screenshot 1 below as an example

As a teacher, I should be able to see the total score of a student for a particular assignment as I am grading a student. Currently I need to click “save” before the total score is calculated and made visible. See screenshot 2 below as an example

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Links to existing tracker issues, forum discussions, contrib plugins

Moodle tracker related item

Improved UI

Formative Rubrics with criteria weighting

Scales within criteria

Displaying grade

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Requirements

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Further reading

Screen 1: Grading interface mockup illustrating the sliding scale interface for each criteria on the rubric

If the slide scale is from 0-10 for example with 0-3 being Poor, 4-6 OK, 7-8 Good and 9-10 Outstanding. The teacher would see four points on the scale but in actual fact there would be ten points on that scale where the user could place the marker. To help ensure accessibility via a screen reader  1 to 4 for Poor, 1 to 3 OK, 1 to 2 Good and 1 to 2 Outstanding

Screen 2: Grading interface mockup illustrating the “live” score as the lecturer is grading

AS the teacher changes the position of the slider on each criteria the grade highlighted by the circle in the image, updates

Note - if the calculated score of rubric is overridden by the teacher, the score should be highlighted in a different colour to the teacher (similar to gradebook). If the teacher returns to mark the work later and readjusts the rubric slider - a note pops up - “are you sure you want to update the grade?” and then the new calculated score is inserted